走在流行前面的人
這一組直接就是核心畫面本身:一個比別人早一步的人。差別只在你從哪個角度看他——是看他走得快,還是看他刻意不跟大家走一起。
noun · B2
Someone who follows the newest clothes, music, food and ideas, and who other people see as stylish and up to date.
時髦的人
One way to hold this word: a person standing a step ahead of the crowd. They already have the record, the coffee, the haircut that everyone else will have next year. Everything the word does grows out of that one step of distance — being ahead of it, being away from it, or having been ahead of it seventy years ago.
Recorded as hip + -ster: hip in the slang sense of being aware of what is going on, plus -ster meaning a kind of person, as in youngster. First attested in 1920s America for someone carrying something on the hip, and in the 1940s as a variant of hepster for a follower of the latest styles.
資料記載這個字是 hip 加上 -ster。hip 是俚語的「跟得上、懂門道」,-ster 表示某一種人,像 youngster。它最早在一九二○年代的美國指「把東西掛在腰上的人」,一九四○年代成為 hepster 的另一種寫法,用來指追流行的人。這兩條線索,剛好對上今天「人」和「褲子」兩種用法。
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Two branches
走在流行前面的人
這一組直接就是核心畫面本身:一個比別人早一步的人。差別只在你從哪個角度看他——是看他走得快,還是看他刻意不跟大家走一起。
noun · B2
Someone who follows the newest clothes, music, food and ideas, and who other people see as stylish and up to date.
時髦的人
卡在髖骨上的褲子(英式)
這一支和「流行」沒有關係,接回的是身體上的 hip。把它和上面那一組放在一起看,只是為了提醒:同一個拼法,兩條來源。
noun · C1
Trousers that fit closely over the hips and sit below the waist. The word is used only in the plural, and this use is marked British English.
低腰褲